casual vs early

casual

adj
  • Coming without regularity; occasional or incidental. 

  • Designed for informal or everyday use. 

  • Happening or coming to pass without design. 

  • Informal; relaxed. 

  • Employed irregularly. 

  • Happening by chance. 

  • Careless. 

noun
  • A person whose engagement with media is relaxed or superficial. 

  • A worker who is only working for a company occasionally, not as its permanent employee. 

  • A soldier temporarily at a place of duty, usually en route to another place of duty. 

  • A player of casual games. 

  • Shoes suitable for everyday use, as opposed to more formal footwear. 

  • A member of a group of football hooligans who wear expensive designer clothing to avoid police attention; see casual (subculture). 

  • One who receives relief for a night in a parish to which he does not belong; a vagrant. 

early

adj
  • Arriving a time before expected; sooner than on time. 

  • Near the start or beginning. 

  • Near the start of the day. 

  • Having begun to occur; in its early stages. 

  • At a time in advance of the usual or expected event. 

  • Of a star or class of stars, hotter than the sun. 

noun
  • A shift (scheduled work period) that takes place early in the day. 

adv
  • At a time before expected; sooner than usual. 

  • Soon; in good time; seasonably. 

How often have the words casual and early occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )